OPML ping server and Active Rolls

Tris Hussey agrees with Mark Evans - the 'blogroll is toast'. At the same time Ken McGuire has been looking for a way of tying his blog network together and found OPML a suitable solution. What's great about rolling his blog feeds into an outline format is that I can easily add it to my Grazr sidebar under the 'Active Rolls' section. Blogrolls may be toast but meta-blogrolls, ie. Active Rolls, are only ramping up.

Now if Ken would go the extra step of inserting OPML autodiscovery tags in his headers (as he'll see in the source code to this blog) his blogs would be compatible with the new generation of tools we saw launching this week, starting with Marjolein's bookmarklet, then Sergio's Firefox plugin, and now Tom Morris' OPML Ping Server -

"Eventually I will have a comprehensive API available - and the data
will be available in a variety of open XML formats that you can reuse.
It may look limited at the moment - but it's going to get better and
better. So start submitting your OPML files - and web pages tagged up
with the OPML autodiscovery tags"

Technorati Tags: OPML, ping server, active roll, autodiscovery

Comments

[Ken McGuire]

Consider me outlined, autodiscovered, and pinged :)

[Tris Hussey]

OPML autodiscovery! That's a great idea. Up until now OPML has been a great way to import export feeds from your aggregator. I think I need to spend some time playing with OPML more.

BTW, thanks for the link!